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Message: <blockquote data-quote="n00b f00" data-source="post: 6628734" data-attributes="member: 6795700">To me a smallish difference isn't a big deal. One that we can see with charts, but that I don't think your average professional soldier would be absolutely certain with math in the setting. Like, they would for sure see the difference with a d12 versus a d4. But a d6 versus a d8? I think the average one point of damage that they'd see, if they saw a ton of fighting with those weapons, would be something they likely chalked up to small sample size, or they would confirmation basis. Or at least many would. I've seen people argue about guns, and calibers, and ranges forever. They've linked charts, dummy tests, stories, reports from battlefield medics. And they still don't agree. They can oftentimes not agree on which one is meaningfully more damaging to the health of a human body at all, or if being that much more damaging actually is meaningful in a fight.To me that just makes it more obvious that that PCs couldn't honestly prove that one was worse than other when it was a minor discrepancy. Because in real life, with all the information we have. You still have gun nuts argue til they're purple in the face that no, their chosen gun is the d8 and the other one is the d6. I don't see why it'd be any different in DnD unless you wanted to metagame which is just fine. Or they did do the orc stabby test a few thousand times and found that yes, this weapon is marginally better.To me as a player, I wouldn't really sweat it. Unless it was either a very large mechanical difference. Like a str barbarian using a single dagger, which would come across as inane in and out of universe, or we were just playing a campaign based around winning a series of narrative free combat encounters in a void. Which isn't an insult, it's a totally chill way to play the game, and the only one I'd feel raw over. Though honestly, if I felt like I really wanted my roman legionnaire to use a shortsword for flavor, I'd ask my GM if I could just reskin a rapier as a shortsword. That way we all win, and I can't make a reasonable argument for why a GM might turn down that request.</blockquote>

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